Guessing Quotes

Nothing matters but the facts. Without them, the science of criminal investigation is nothing more than a guessing game.

We were given the Scriptures to humble us into realizing that God is right, and the rest of us are just guessing.

If you don't have the confidence, it doesn't matter what you do, you're always second-guessing yourself.

I'm guessing whatever 'ways' you have in mind aren't Jill-appropriate either." "Put your books away and I'll show you.

Keep everybody guessing as to what your next trick is going to be. Don't become too predictable.

A friend should be a master at guessing and keeping still: you must not want to see everything.

Second guessing a decision is a waste of time.

Things change all the time, and theyll probably never be the same again. Its just the natural evolution of the human condition. Things change, and whatever it is is what it is. I mean, you try to start second guessing that, you either get rich or die broke.

Look inside yourself for the answers - you're the only one who knows what's best for you. Everybody else is only guessing.

My only obligation is to keep myself and other people guessing.

Life has taught me one big lesson, always keep the girlies guessing.

One of the nice things about being a private company is operating without the intensity of public glare. It's hard to grow a company under a microscope of constant second guessing.

As long as you keep the audience on the edge of their seats, either scare them or keep them guessing, you can put anything in there that you want.

You can't learn from remembering. You can't learn from guessing. You can learn only from moving forward at the rate you are moved, as brightness into brightness.

We're guessing at our future opportunity cost. Warrenis guessing that he'll have the opportunity to put capital out at high rates of return, so he's not willing to put it out at less than 10% now. But if we knew interest rates would stay at 1%, we'd change. Our hurdles reflect our estimate of future opportunity costs.

You train yourself in the art of being mysterious to everyone. My dear friend! What if there were no one, who cared about guessing your riddle, what pleasure would you then take in it?

I decided I was sick of trying to figure out what everybody else wanted, and I should just decide what I want, and be honest, and not spend all my time guessing.

Guessing what the pitcher is going to throw is 80% of being a successful hitter. The other 20% is just execution.

Voters tell politicians what they want through the ballot box. Constantly second-guessing them by speculating whether the parties should gang up on each other misses the point.

The creative scientist studies nature with the rapt gaze of the lover, and is guided as often by aesthetics as by rational considerations in guessing how nature works.

Some things you can't find out; but you will never know you can't by guessing and supposing: no, you have to be patient and go on experimenting until you find out that you can't find out.

History is mostly guessing; the rest is prejudice.

I don't get into that second guessing of myself publicly.

We spend our lives guessing at what's going on inside everybody else, and when we happen to get lucky and guess right, we think we 'understand.' Such nonsense. Even a monkey at a computer will type a word now and then.

If you ever want to get the facts straight about me or the Batman, please write to the original source, myself, for the truth, instead of second guessing.

I showed people that it's not about guessing what people can do. It's about saying, 'Here, show me what you can do.'

I'm guessing the stress of having to write for a deadline can be inspiring. Sometimes, pressure is good.

The result of the mathematician's creative work is demonstrative reasoning, a proof; but the proof is discovered by plausible reasoning, by guessing.

Memorizing, guessing, looking at pictures, predicting, substituting, and skipping, are not reading; they are very bad habits.

Guessing has never been widely acclaimed as a good gambling strategy.

I question every move. I'm constantly second-guessing myself.

The most difficult problem in personal knowledge, whether of oneself or of others, is the problem of guessing when to think as a historian and when to think as an anthropologist.

For someone attacked by criminals to be victimized a second time by a second-guessing legal system is wrong.

That's always important to us, is being truthful. Not guessing, not making any assumptions. Just coming at it with knowledge.

The yen is trading where it's trading because people are guessing about people's future interest rates, dollar and yen and about the future growth potential of the economies. And, if this policy works, then the yen will probably strengthen.

The very things I used to be told off for - daydreaming, exaggerating, making mistakes, wild guessing, contradicting, spying, being obsessive, being reckless - for these, suddenly, I am being praised.

Sometimes guessing is the best you can do. In the real world, we guess all the time and it serves us well.

Are you going to deliver whatever threat Avari sent you with, or are we going to have to start guessing?" Tod said. "I gotta warn you, I'm insanely good at charades.

My sense, and I'm sort of guessing, is that the journalists were being classified by the government as common criminals, and the political prisoners were so resistant to being that. Always keeping [the other prisoners] as murderers, thieves, that sort of thing, which has a certain irony to it, I guess. It's a curious thing.

You see how wrong I go, how ridiculous I'm making myself in your eyes by keeping on guessing wrong like this! Doesn't that help you to come out with it? Come on now!

The producers like to keep people guessing and keep them on the edge of their seats.

One should make the best choice possible given the circumstances, and then avoid second-guessing for the sake of one's own sanity.

Hindsight alone is not wisdom. And second-guessing is not a strategy.

Life seemed even more of a guessing game than usual.

Unless you are good at guessing, it is not much use being a detective.

For better or worse, I've become the person the Adams Estate has entrusted to guide Dirk Gently into new mediums and to new audiences. I take that responsibility pretty seriously, which is, I'm guessing, where Ilias's comment about me being a "hands-on collaborator" (code for control freak) comment comes from.

If the prior distribution, at which I am frankly guessing, has little or no effect on the result, then why bother; and if it has a large effect, then since I do not know what I am doing how would I dare act on the conclusions drawn?

I feel like I'm adapting to society. I went feral a little bit. I found that when I would get back to the city, if there was any second-guessing about stuff, it would happen.

Well! I feel happy these days. I've started taking a herbal anti-depressant. It's called Saint John's Wort. Apparently it's the best-selling anti-depressant in many places. It's the most popular anti-depressant in Germany... After, I'm guessing, amnesia.

Guessing right for the wrong reason does not merit scientific immortality.